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Earlier this week, while police were searching for Lacasse, the mayor of the Laurentian town of Gore, where Lacasse lives, described him as “one of the friendliest, most polite community-minded people that I know.”

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“He is at every event,” Scott Pearce said, “at the community breakfast and the mayor’s St. Patrick’s Day dinner where we have Irish stew and Irish coffee … He is very well liked and I have never heard anyone say a negative word about him.”

When word spread that Lacasse was missing, several town councillors and firefighters searched the woods around the town and up to Morin Heights.

“Our councillors know him so it has been tough for them,” Pearce said.

Yves St-Denis, MNA for the Argenteuil riding and Lacasse’s second cousin, said on Monday that the family had been braced for the worst. “It’s very sad. He is a nice man and he probably saw a man in need and tried to help him.”

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